It's migration season! Monarch butterflies travel over 4,000 km to winter in Mexico's stunning oyamel forests. Witness the beauty of nature's incredible journey.

Sign petition to stop King’s visit to #US #StopTrump Petition: Government to advise monarch to refuse/cancel state visits with hostile powers petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Confirmation, if one was needed, that bears do indeed shit in the woods (aka Bolivia’s neglected inter-Andean dry forests)

1/ NYT out with a huge piece on the decision to go to war. It's much as we thought: Bibi sold Trump a rosy scenario that he heard over the mild to moderate warnings that it was BS but the details are so...appalling/demoralizing. Vance clearly a source: GIFT LINK 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

#Chester we'll see you this Thursday @StoryhouseLive and we'll also be launching our new single "Seven Bridges Road" (sneak peak below!) 🎟️🎟️ chester.com/listing/trac... youtu.be/M0DqonTRPlg

huh... wanted to try a different alcohol free beer and ended up with a "refreshing isotonic drink"🤔

new bar on the upper bridge st rows

Parseword #69 ⚡️ 23s 💎 Perfect

High protein 'diets' were invented by bros needing an excuse for a post session bacon butty

easy one again Parseword #68 ⚡️ 34s 💎 Perfect

Iran hits back on social media.

today's dilemma : go for a run, or go buy a leg of lamb... and it's truly either/or, no way I could cram more than one productive activity into this bank holiday

jeesus, 2 pints of camden IPA and I'm actually drunk... too light a lunch, meaning I'm now cooking dinner, drunk, never a good idea

this read delicious, and a month ago I wouldn't have balked at a recipe that calls for 5 table spoons of olibe oil... how I long for those innocent times when I didn't know how little olive oil my 50+ year old self is actually allowed 😭

I broke up our toddler group from antenatal classes by serving popcorn at a birthday party. One kid loved it but couldn't say it, so was shouting "Cock porn! Mummy! I love it! More cock porn!". Some of us collapsed laughing but the others really didn't see the funny side.

This is why the 25th Amendment exists. This is the purpose of having the 25th Amendment. To not use this power to remove the president is not a passive act, a mere option: it is a positive decision to misuse the constitution.

struggled a bit with that one Parseword #67 ⏱️ 23m7s ✅ 3 Hints

WTF??? It's now raining?!? It's not supposed to be raining!! I have a very complicated weather app that promised me clear skies!!!

Having had one of these things I actually find more pleasure in my £30 filter coffee maker. Much less faff, can be timed to be ready when I get up, takes 10mn to brew a proper litre of the black stuff, cups after cups of morning pleasure!

Labour supports genocide in Gaza, threatens jury trials, harms trans children, lies about everything makes refugees lives more precarious, gets involved in Trump’s war, drills for more global warming, imposes fascist policies on Reform’s behalf and its MPs complain about the world being a dark place

trying to find the motivation for a 10k morning run... On the one hand weather is fine, and a run along the Dee on the meadows will certainly be glorious... On the other, I still have at least half a pot of coffee, the couch is comfy and the radio is playing some bangers...

I could almost . . . call them c*te . . . Thank you to Mike Fenton Photography for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay

Meanwhile, slightly bizarrely, if you have an electric car and charge it on Octopus Agile tomorrow lunchtime, you'll be paid several quid to do so because there's going to be TOO MUCH WIND POWER FOR THE GRID TO HANDLE. Time to open the oven door, turn the heat to max, and reduce your energy bill!

OMG I'm enjoying this movie 😂 www.imdb.com/title/tt3142...

Parseword #66 ⏱️ 3m13s ⭐️ No Hints

I know it's tempting but please don't make jokes about smashing your fists into duck feather duvets, it might seem funny but it's actually punching down

when... not if?

I find Parseword too easy, but struggle at actual cryptics... I know the rules, just don't have a sufficiently open mind to think of the right words Parseword #65 ⚡️ 30s 💎 Perfect

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

10/10, no notes www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Parseword #62 ⏱️ 2m2s 💎 Perfect

OMG I love that. #karma

The last time the Olympics had widespread sex eligibility testing, the results were disastrous. Add social media to that fire now. Intersex athletes will not only have their lives upended, they'll be brutally targeted for harassment and potential violence. www.erininthemorning.com/p/under-new-...

Parseword #61 ⏱️ 1m15s 💎 Perfect

so maybe productionise this workflow : a button that both deletes the original posts and provides the original text in an edit window?

This is frustrating - the problem solver in me **really** want to make suggestions. like - what about concentrating on typo corrections and only allow small edits, in terms of length, Levenshtein distance, or maybe tokenisation?

That'd be me... my parents evening jokes should be legendary, never understood why not!

watching, on the pub TV, what I think is Aussie rules football, and jeee those guys are physically fit! ho, now they're showing American baseball, what a contrast! The statistical trend indicates darts will soon be on 😂

T'is ridiculous - I went running in the freezing drizzle, and I'm now having a Guinness in a dark Irish pub while the sun is shining outside 🤦🏻‍♂️

Millions of people attended protest yesterday, opened NYT to find protest mocked 5+ scrolls down on their mobile landing page OR saw little coverage on the cable news, and finally understood what Corporate Media is about. And it is not about objectivity informing US or defending democracy.

I had the solution to this one almost immediately, but couldn't figure out how the clues led to it - had to get a hint 😕 Parseword #60 ⏱️ 11m56s ✅ 1 Hint

FFS, because my normal run comes a bit short of an actual 5k I've ended the month 2k short of my Strava's 100k in March challenge... 🤬 So today, instead of lazing on the couch, I'm going to have to drag myself in the cold drizzle for a jog round the park 😩

America did not meet the universal adult suffrage criteria of democratic governance until 1965. Gatorade is the exact same age as American democracy.

Proper Chestering tonight. I'm sipping a pint at Metronome, having just watched a movie at Picture house, right after renewing some books at the Storyhouse...

the IOC trans ban’s main effect will be to show you who among your friends and family really enjoys punching down

Parseword #58 ⏱️ 1m55s ⭐️ No Hints

Chester cyclists. A cyclist dropped a bag on Walls Ave. in that terrible weather the other day. I have retained the dropped package for safekeeping, if anyone wants to reclaim - please contact me. Please share to your pedal-powered, two-wheeled friends. Thanks. @shitchester.bsky.social

🚨Chester Zoo have a new red panda. She’s called Akashi.

Just underwent a long needed, gruelling deep tissue sports massage at Baan Bifern Thai Therapist Massage (www.baanbifernmassage.co.uk) on #Chester Northgate. Convenient location, reasonable prices and no nonsense, highly recommended!